Paulinho He announced this Sunday that he is retiring from football at the age of 36. The former Brazilian footballer has hung up his boots after a long and illustrious career. After going through the Vilnius Lithuanian, the Łódź polish, the Red Bull Bragantino Brazilian, Corinthians, Tottenham Hotspur, Guangzhou, FC Barcelona, Of those–Ahli saidand finally Corinthians Once again, the former São Paulo player ended a career that will be remembered by all Blaugranas for his time at the Catalan club in the 2017-18 season.
The Brazilian arrived at the Catalan club to much criticism. He Barçaled at that time by Bartomeu and with Robert Fernandez as sports director, he paid a whopping 40 million euros in the summer of 2017. Culés fans considered this a huge figure for a player who was 29 years old and played in China, but his excellent work and remarkable performance changed the situation.
Ernesto Valverde He found something and, after the damage of Dembele and the march of Neymar, Paulinho He was on many occasions the companion of Luis Suarez and Messi in a more relaxed attack for a 4-4-2 in a diamond than the characteristic 4-3-3 culé. That year he scored nine goals and three assists in 49 games and managed to silence all the purist critics of the style who considered that the Brazilian lacked the necessary quality to play in FC Barcelona.
He left a year later back to Guangzhou leaving 50 million euros in cash, so the Barça He made a profit by signing and subsequently selling one from Sao Paulo.
Paulinho He retired after playing 611 times and scoring 155 goals in his 19 years as a professional footballer.
Source: La Verdad
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